Cultural Energy HCR74 Box 21912
El Prado, NM 87529
In the old KTAO studio 192 Blueberry Hill 575-758-9791 Listen On-Line
No Log-in Required Over 2,100 segments available to hear free.
Staff Production Director Segment Editing & Volunteer Coordinator Mike Tilley Outreach & Membership Station Development
Web Page & Photos Robin Collier Producers/Hosts De la Tierra Ernie Atencio
Earth Beat Roberta Salazar Farming in Season Lisa Fox Native Momentum Lyla Johnston ¡Que Vivan Las Acequias! Miguel Santistevan Red Air Flowers Espinosa Radio Rio
Rachel Conn
Brian Shields Special Shows Robin Collier
Scott Shuker Taos Currents
Mike Tilley Untitled
Maye Torres Writers on Radio
Tania Casselle Women's Speak
Nancy Ryan
Maye Torres Writers on Radio
Tania Casselle Women's Speak
Nancy Ryan Segment Creators
Thom Allena
Barbara Arnold
Dr. Kathy Cordova
David Donaldson Susan Embry Scott Evans George King Carol Mell
John Paternoster
Lucy Perera Adams
Bob Romero
Barri Sanders Valerie Segura Theresa Silva
Steve Wirard Holly White Reporters Field Reporters Carol Miller Brenda Morgan Laurie Richmond
Scott Shuker
Jenny Stanley
Youth Reporters Aaron Allred Melanie Baca
Ian Bearden Forest Bello Jasmine Bennett
Andrea Bluearm
R. J. Chavez
Juman Khweis
Madjuline Khweis
Vanessa Perez Ned Randolph
Holt Seiler
Derek Stevens
Alie Valerio
Board (still developing) Robin Collier
Taos Flowers Espinosa Taos Pueblo Juman Khweis Ranchos de Taos
Miguel Santistevan
Taos Maye Torres Carson
Juman Khweis, RJ Chavez & Rebecca Embler interview Congressman Tom Udall in 2005
We are now five years old!
Cultural Energy is a nonprofit organization formed in 2003 to create radio and other media productions for Northern New Mexico.
Our independent organization is building multimedia news and cultural resources for rural Northern New Mexico. As well as our planned new FM educational 9,000 watt radio station at 89.5 FM. We are now expanding our web page to cover the North in print, photos, video and audio.
Tania Casselle's SOMOS Writers on Radio interview with poet Levi Romero was awarded first place in the 2009 New Mexico Press Women's Excellence in Communications Contest, for a radio interview broadcast in 2008. Second Place and an Honorable Mention were awarded to her interviews with Frances Washburn and John Nichols. All three programs were produced by Robin Collier at Cultural Energy, and can be heard with other archive interviews on the SOMOS listening page.
Contest winners are selected by out-of-state judges, and first place winners in the New Mexico contest go forward to the National Federation of Press Women awards.
We are no longer broadcasting on a station who violated our copyrights and failed to credit us as producers of our segments on their web site and newsletter. All our shows continue on-line here or Listen Thurs 8:05 - 9:35 pm on KTAO 101.9 FM and to KLDK 96.5 LPFM Dixon Mon-Thurs at 11:30 am
We need recording equipment! After 5 years of heavy use, all our minidisc recorders are dying. Please consider donating to Cultural Energy so we can purchase new flash recorders to cover public meetings and cultural events.
To the right are images of two of the great recorders that we need . The best, the Sony PCM-D50 is $500. Almost as good, the Olympus LS-10, is $350. We need at least two recorders, and could easily use as many as five, so our youth and volunteer producers can check them out to record their shows and interviews.
Call 758-9791 to learn how to become involved by volunteering or producing your own segments. We need volunteers for interviewing, writing, photographing, videography, editing, cataloging segments, developing music and public affairs programming, fundraising and outreach, training youth and more.
Our production facility includes a recording studio, a mixing and editing room, a meeting/class room and high speed Internet access.
Juan Khweis and Justin Baily 4:30 on Tuesday Nov. 4 2008 Listen on Line to Juman talk about the volunteer effort for Obama. She is working on an audio documentary on the 88 students she recruited.
We are now starting a New Public Radio Station for Taos & Northern New Mexico
Serving the Acequia and Pueblo communities of Northern New Mexico Please call or email us if you are interested in volunteering or being part of Public Affairs Programing, Music Programing, or Membership Committees Become a Founding Member of Your Public Radio Station Read about our plans here & how to help
Amy Goodman records JennyVincent singing "God Bless the Americas" at the Cultural Energy Benefit Sep 28, 2006 - larger image Robin Collier photo
Jenny has been sick recently - please send her good thoughts and prayers for healing!
A CD of "God Bless the Americas" is available for $5
to benefit Cultural Energy & with all memberships
Thanks to Tony Issacs & Indian House. Listen On-Line
Read the Biography of Jenny Vincent by Craig Smith Available at Moby Dickens and Brodsky's
18 year old Jasmine Bennett questions Ralph Nader in her interviews of four presidential candidates.
We are particularly interested in involving youth in media production. We are working with individual youth, Private Schools, Charter and Public Elementary, Middle and High School.
Taos welcomes home the NM National Guard from Iraq.
Karen Mirabal, Pasqual Gonzales and Miguel Santistevan of ePlaza on Taos Currents hosted by Mike Tilley
We are working with Amigos Bravos, Community Against Violence, Harwood Museum, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos Land Trust, Maye Torrez, Taos Living Treasures, Theresa Silva, Bob Romero of Taos Historical Society (Historia de Taos), Judge John Paternoster (Rules of the Justice Game), Lyla Johnston (Native Momentum), Lisa Fox (Farming thru the Seasons), NM Acequia Association (¡Que Vivan las Acequias!), SOMOS (Writers on Radio), Action Coalition Taos, Peace Action NM, and many other individuals & organizations to jointly produce radio pieces
To find out how your organization can be heard or jointly produce a segment, call Mike or Robin at 758-9791.
If you are interested in become involved as a volunteer or supporting us financially, contact Mike Tilley at 758-9791, or Robin Collier at 751-1596, or donate on-line. The New Mexico Community Foundation is providing fiscal sponsorship for tax-deductible donations. Click here to download the NMCF sponsorship letter in pdf format. Checks that you wish to be tax deductible, should be made payable to the New Mexico Community Foundation with Cultural Energy Fund written in the memo section. Mail donations to Cultural Energy, 201B Camino de la Merced, Taos NM 87571.
Patron Memberships Anonymous
Bread for the Journey
Charles Strong
- Peter & Madeleine
- Martin Foundation
EMA Foundation
Healy Foundation
McCune Charitable Foundation
New Mexico Community
- Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson
- Foundation Surdna Foundation
Town of Taos
Taos County Commission
Taos Pueblo Day School
Scott Randolph
Committed Memberships John Batis - TaosNet Bob Bishop
Buzz Inc.
Century 21 - Paul Romero
Robin Collier
Edward A. Foster Tony Issacs
Peace Action New Mexico
Eugene Sanchez
Taos Film Commission
Sponsoring Membership Amigos Bravos
Cid's Food Market
Rachel Conn
George "Fritz" Hahn
Green Builders
- Scott Evans
Jack-Wrap-It Express
Cecily D. Fox
Gallery A
Linda Griego
Larie Ihm
- Taos High School
Suzie Schwartz
Silvia Rennie
Society of the Muse
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